It sounds like your problem with the show is that it wasn’t “Atheist Seventh Heaven” expressing all your opinions as the correct ones and making the atheists the heroes/shining exemplars.

“Why so fervently cling to the religion of your oppressors? I’m a Latinx atheist, and wonder this all the time about Latinx communities too - the missionaries came in the same boats as the Conquistadors!”

“Second, I hate that being atheist was associated with whiteness. He was just assuming that all the Black people in his office were Christian.”

It’s not actually interesting. What’s interesting is the fact that anyone buys it, that anyone respects it, that anyone thought it merited a show.

I’m surprised he didn’t move on to, say, splatters of fish sauce on the photo of the burned girl running from napalm.

Now little kids are getting their hair dyed colors and going to school and it’s fine.

Your parents were wise.

If the title wasn’t “Piss Christ” they probably wouldn’t have ever known. They likely wouldn’t have made the effort to read about the media used.

I wasn’t surprised to see that Walker was born in Georgia and went to university in Tennessee and Arizona.

The images in BSP are important images, such as the young black man being attacked by a police dog.

The responsible curator is a fairly recent hire (or less recent hire and recent promotion?) who is from New York and apparently wanted to bring Walker to the museum since being hired.

“So why did you cover the focal point of an important photograph, a young black man being attacked by a police dog, with blotches of chocolate? And why chocolate?”

As “post-conceptual” art, this would seem to be work without any meaning beyond what is superficial, because presumably any such meaning would be a concept.

The non-booty photo is of a young black man being attacked by a police dog in Alabama during the Civil Rights era. A famous photo, taken by a photographer who was in no small amount of peril from the cops and locals.

Yes. I can imagine some vapid, rich, racist white person hanging these in his house to demonstrate how hep he is with the urban kids these days. Probably describes it to his friends as “some kind of graffiti art”.

Or colored paint instead of toothpaste or chocolate, with thoughtful selection of color.

I once watched a video of a chinese artist, sitting on a chair, surrounded on three sides by a three story tall scaffolding. On the levels of the scaffolding were numerous naked people. (White, I think.)

“it’s not specifically because the art consists of magazine images smeared with toothpaste.”

The amusing thing is that if it were titled “Christ in Amber” or something there would likely have been no controversy, even though it remained a crucifix in urine.

Uslip seems awfully young for a curator.